Pending Transaction for more than 4 month

Hi,ich have send 8840 Giota from my light wallet to the trinity wallet on the 16.12.2018. I tried more than ones the advices to reattach the transaction and promote it but i cant promote it because of the following Error: Transaction is inconsistent. Reason: tails are not consistent (would lead to inconsistent ledger state or below max depth). I need your help what can i do that the transaction is confirmed?The tx Hash is: MZQQNKHESKFNOSMQECET9VSXLJLWEQCADJYCTLTCBMND9LTTYEROLH9VOBJAEYGGUGKGXZOXBANJ99999

This address also shows that you have been reusing the private key of this specific address three (!) times. The first time you sent from it was January 27th 2018. After that you received funds to it again and sent the second time on November 11th. The third reuse was your attempt to send to Trinity on December 16th.

IOTA uses Winternitz one-time signature (W-OTS) scheme. The name already says it: the signatures are to be used one time only. The reason for this is that this algorithm exposes 50% of the private key of an address each time you send from the same address. In your case, you exposed 50% of the private key of this specific address three times. Depending on which parts were revealed each time, it could have been your whole private key or at least such a big part of it that it would have been easy enough to brute force the rest.

I’m sorry to say this but if I had to make a guess, I’d say your funds have been stolen because of the constant reuse of your address.

By Koraz - 17 Apr 2019

Hi Alexa,thanks for the fast respond. That´s a very bad information for me. Are you 100% sure that the coins are stolen? Or can be there an opportunity that there is an other problem why the transaction can´t be confirmed. Can your explain me what happens with the other 5 Giotas? Is there the same Problem? And what can i do now to sent other iota´s from my wallet to another wallet, the programm tells me that the further transaction must be confirmed before i can make a new one.

Hi Alexa,thanks for the fast respond. That´s a very bad information for me. Are you 100% sure that the coins are stolen? Or can be there an opportunity that there is an other problem why the transaction can´t be confirmed. Can your explain me what happens with the other 5 Giotas? Is there the same Problem? And what can i do now to sent other iota´s from my wallet to another wallet, the programm tells me that the further transaction must be confirmed before i can make a new one.

I can’t be sure that your coins have been stolen, that’s why I called it a „guess“. I can only tell you what I see and that's a heavily reused address with at least one (more of that later) suspicious transaction. Your coins have definitely left your CURBZI-address on December 16th and have then been split up into two parts. If you didn’t do this, then someone else did it.

The other to 2 Gi went to (surprise) CURBZI…. They have arrived one day after the (potential theft) transaction and were sent away only five minutes later. I'm not going to guess this time, but again: if you didn’t do this, then someone else did it.

I'm honestly surprised that those 1.78 GI are still on JS9NDE...after three exposures of 50% of the private key. Seems like you got lucky with overlapping parts. However, the funds on this address are at a very high risk of getting stolen whenever you make a new transaction and expose yet another part.

The error you’re getting now is a protection measure to prevent exactly this situation. You now have funds on at least three used addresses and the wallet won’t let you send another transaction because that's very, very dangerous. It’s a mystery to me how you even managed to reuse your addresses in such a way. The wallet should have thrown this error to protect you when you first attempted to send a second time from the same address. No idea why that didn’t happen. Which wallet software were you using for your transactions?